Time Answered

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Time Answered



​lost and lost in each other
shadows mourn
they dance their darkness
in their own little world
of cast down chiaroscuro

raised above
wrapped in ribbons
dance the free light and colour
of heaven

between 
lies calm, priestly presence
and the sermon is ready already
in the heart of man

seen and unseen
felt between and between
lies this ambiguous body
rhythm of blood and breath
seasons of life and death
within this life

the body has its own rule
we must respect
we shall sharpen it as our tool
and expect
as we might

and towards what end
my friend
shall we fight?
does the matter really matter?
the blood shall one day splatter
don't tell the wife

yet the senses may learn 
and win a truth that may turn
us back to life...

time questions
the world turns
in perpetual doubt

not taking its time
but taken by time
the world quakes

time takes 
this is the truth
yet time takes not this truth

the inner light speaks
and casts no shadow
and the words have the sound 
of words that are heard
taken within, between between
there in the empty alley

time is answered
light of heart and heart of light
before the word is spoken
and after
celebrating the life that lies
forever in the silence

and the lost shall be found
found where they are most lost
cast adrift
pilgrims in hope of freedom

in the sea or on the islands
in the hope of freedom
shall speak the clear horizon

where the prayer falls
the truth calls
there where the grey light
ripples and shimmers
there where the silence glimmers

the humble heart
shall hear the call
never to part
never to fall

for life is encoded in the fertile seed
there is the ultimate cause

and there in between
and between the between
on the horizon
of the space and the pause
is eternity 
written between 
and between between
the lines of a life 
a life of truth
a true life
freed
there too in the fertile seed

and at the source of the river
unseen, between the between
in the trickle in the mud
there where the air is green
there at the first blood
there begins the search for us all
to stem the mighty flood

there where nature will reach us
there where nature will teach us
straight from heart
to heart

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